#!/bin/sh # Check that cat operates correctly when the input is the same as the output. # Copyright 2014-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ cat echo x >out || framework_failure_ echo x >out1 || framework_failure_ returns_ 1 cat out >>out || fail=1 compare out out1 || fail=1 # This example is taken from the POSIX spec for 'cat'. echo x >doc || framework_failure_ echo y >doc.end || framework_failure_ cat doc doc.end >doc || fail=1 compare doc doc.end || fail=1 # This terminates even though it copies a file to itself. # Coreutils 9.5 and earlier rejected this. echo x >fx || framework_failure_ echo y >fy || framework_failure_ cat fx fy >fxy || fail=1 for i in 1 2; do cat fx >fxy$i || fail=1 done for i in 3 4 5 6; do cat fx >fx$i || fail=1 done cat - fy fxy1 || fail=1 compare fxy fxy1 || fail=1 cat fxy2 fy 1<>fxy2 || fail=1 compare fxy fxy2 || fail=1 returns_ 1 cat fx fx3 1<>fx3 || fail=1 returns_ 1 cat - fx4 fx4 || fail=1 returns_ 1 cat fx5 >>fx5 || fail=1 returns_ 1 cat >fx6 || fail=1 # coreutils 9.6 would fail with a plain cat if the tty was in append mode # Simulate with a regular file to simplify echo foo > file || framework_failure_ # Set fd 3 at EOF exec 3< file && cat <&3 > /dev/null || framework_failure_ # Set fd 4 in append mode exec 4>> file || framework_failure_ cat <&3 >&4 || fail=1 exec 3<&- 4>&- Exit $fail